Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.